Improvement in cuff-fastenings



s. HOUGHTON. I CUFF-FASTENING, No. 176.7861 Pateflted May 2,1876

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STILLMAN HOUGHTON, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. I

IMPROVEMENT IN CUFF- FASTENINGS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,786, dated May 2, 1876; application filed March 24, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LSTILLMAN HOUGHTON, of the city and county of .Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefuLor Improved Cuff-Fastening; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying. drawings, of which Figure l is a front view, Fig. 2 a rear elevation, Fig. 3 alongitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of it.

The article is to enable a person to fasten a cuif to the sleeve of a shirt or garment. It is very like the cuff-fastener for which a patent, dated February 1,1876, and numbered 172,895,

was granted to myself and Grenville F. Sparrow.

In carrying out my invention I do not use a recessed catch-spring on the. back of the stud A, but, instead thereof, I employ two stationary hooked jaws, to a, with a space, b, between their next adjacent ends, of a width suflicient to enable the staple-shaped catch (3 to be introduced edgewise between the said ends, and into the space 0 between the jaws, this latter space being large enough to allow of the catch being next turned about therein,

' so as to be overlapped by both jaws and held by them in connection with or coupled to the stud. It is found in practice that a recessed spring-catch is apt to become bent or broken;

a a, constructed asdescribed, and adapted to r be applied to the catch 0, substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

STILLMAN HOUGHTON. Witnesses:

' R. H. EDDY,

J. R. SNOW. 

